ICQ and NeuStar to Deliver Interconnection for Mobile Instant Messaging

Barcelona, Spain (ots/PRNewswire) -

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS -- NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) today
announced that it is working with leading Instant Messaging (IM)
provider ICQ to bring increased levels of interconnection to mobile
Instant Messaging users.

Mobile network operators that wish to provide their mobile IM
communities with access to ICQ's 28 million IM users worldwide will
now be able to connect their mobile IM users to ICQ's users through
NeuStar's market-leading Interconnect services, as well as via
NeuStar's industry-leading Mobile Messaging Gateway (MMG) services.

Allen Scott, general manager of NeuStar Next Generation Messaging
(NGM), said: "NeuStar's vision is of a world in which anyone can
communicate through Instant Messaging regardless of geography,
network, or technology. This development with ICQ brings this vision
a step closer. Our aim is to interconnect communities and to make
messaging with 'anyone, anywhere' simple and intuitive. Providing
operator communities with access to users of ICQ Instant Messaging
service is a big step to bringing true interconnection to mobile IM."

Ofer Oved, vice president of ICQ, said: "ICQ is delighted to be
offering its user base the opportunity to message with mobile
operator communities. NeuStar's experience in mobile IM, combined
with their understanding of the mobile environment and what works
within it, makes them an ideal partner to implement ICQ's mobile
vision -- that is, to treat the users as a dynamic community and to
provide them with a complete, seamless, and simple IM solution."

About NeuStar, Inc. and NeuStar Next Generation Messaging

NeuStar, Inc. (NYSE: NSR) is a provider of clearinghouse and
directory services to the global communications and Internet
industry. In November 2006, NeuStar created its Next Generation
Messaging Services by acquiring Followap Inc., a leading global
provider of instant messaging, presence and interconnect services.

Mobile network operators around the world trust NeuStar to enable
real-time communications using presence information. NeuStar has
enabled mobile instant messaging solutions for operators that have
more than 300 million subscribers in total, and NeuStar's customers
include many of the leading operators from across the globe.

NeuStar, Inc. is headquartered in the United States, with
subsidiary offices in Europe and Asia. For more information, please
visit www.neustar.biz and www.neustar.biz/ngm.

About ICQ

ICQ is a leading instant messaging service provider with a global
online communications community. The company's robust instant
messaging software, enhanced communications features and dynamic
community are available in 29 languages free of charge at
www.icq.com. ICQ, created in 1996 by the Israel-based company,
Mirabilis, is now wholly owned by AOL LLC. ICQ and the flower logo
are registered trademarks of AOL LLC in the USA and other countries
in the world.

Web site: http://www.neustar.biz
http://www.neustar.biz/ngm
http://www.icq.com

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Marc Abshire of NeuStar, Inc., +1-571-434-5151,
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